They would have said she had ADHD if they had the option back then. She was hopeless at school and couldn’t concentrate. The Gillian Lynne Story - how ADHD is used to imprison young geniuses

It’s distinct - cites the Gillian Lyne Story.

Robinson defines creativity as ability to come up with new ideas and this is an inter-disciplinary process.

It’s dynamic - it’s interactive, brain is not a set of compartments.

Abstract thinking, feeling, not just the academic form.

It’s diverse - all the ways we think about the world are true.

We need to radically rethink our view of intelligence It was designed in the image of university.įor this reason people everywhere do not think they’re creative.ĭegrees are declining in value over time, ‘academic inflation’ is happening. He argues systems weren’t around before the 19th century, which is why academic ability dominates our view of intelligence. ‘Their body is just a way to move their heads’. He used to be one and he says they tend to live in their heads, and they’re quite disembodied. Produce university professors seems the point of education. We start educating people from the waste up and then to one part of the brain. The strange dominance of mathematics at the top and dance at the bottom. Picasso - ‘all children are born artists, the challenge is remaining an artist as you grow up’. And when they become adults this capacity is lost, we’re running our companies and our society this way. ‘If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with anything original’. If they don’t know the answer, they’ll have a go. The moral of the story is that kids aren’t afraid to be wrong. The children playing the three wise men come out: the first one says ‘this is gold’, the second says ‘this is myrrh’ and the third says ‘frank sent this’.

Second story - his son who was in a nativity play at high school. Teacher: ‘But no one knows what Gods look like?’ the girl says ‘they will in a minute!’ He argues that creativity is as important in education as literacy.įirst story - little girl who never pays attention focused on drawing in the back of a classroom drawing God.

‘My contention is that all kids have tremendous talents and we squander them… quite ruthlessly’. We all agree on the capabilities of young people. We have no idea how the future will play out… and everyone has an interest in education.Įducation is meant to take us into this future we can’t grasp. 1 which remains the most viewed TED Talk of all time! While we unpack notes from his book ‘Out of Our Minds’ in this post, today we deconstruct this three amazing TED Talks, including talk no. We unpack him over a range of episodes on the With Joe Wehbe Podcast starting with episode #247 ( Go here for the podcast, and here for the weekly summary). Ken Robinson is one of history’s greatest thinkers on education. Deconstructing Ken Robinson’s TED Talks On Education & Creativity

Am i not human ted talk